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General => The Shed => Topic started by: jimtheworzel on October 12, 2009, 22:14:34
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mine is planting potatoes, digging them up is no problem, eating them..well!!
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Moving all our stuff off one site to another. We moved house 2 years ago and now have got on a site near to us so everything is on the move!
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Trying to beat the weeds....... 8) 8) 8)
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Turning our new plot from a tractor graveyard to a vegetable haven before spring.
and digging out the masses of bamble roots which are bigger than my head!
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Digging. Some of my 'soil' is still rock solid and some areas are only a few inches deep before it is like concrete.
I only have a small percentage left which has not been dug. And then there is packing up the bean/pea/sweet pea sticks.
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Trying to beat the weeds....... 8) 8) 8)
Me too, and learning a bit of patience, I already have weeds growing round my onions and garlic, should have dug it over and then waited for the new weeds to show their heads before I planted.
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Getting hubby to sow just one seed!
He'll help me by clearing non-compostable stuff away, he'll put up the bean poles, pick the beans, and take them down, dig potatoes, spread manure, water and is my left hand so not really complaining, but I'd just love him to be in at the start. :)
Ninny
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Not buying too many seeds 8)
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Getting hubby to sow just one seed!
He'll help me by clearing non-compostable stuff away, he'll put up the bean poles, pick the beans, and take them down, dig potatoes, spread manure, water and is my left hand so not really complaining, but I'd just love him to be in at the start. :)
Ninny
I'll have him if you don't want him, ninny! ;)
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Getting enough manure\organic material to the plot. I am on a railway cutting on deep London Clay - and the clay wants to stay that way regardless of how much manure I add!!
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Earthing up spuds. Breaks ower Tones back ;D
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Just lately getting up of a morning just to get to me plot don't seem to be able to drag me sen out a bed,but apart from that thinning out i allways put it off till its too late.
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I'm with SlugKiller on this one... :-[
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I'm with SlugKiller on this one... :-[
I'm failing miserably....
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Not buying too many seeds 8)
I feed one neighbour's cat and just keep a look out for the other when they go on holiday.....no fee just bring me back a packet of seeds ;)
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Getting hubby to sow just one seed!
He'll help me by clearing non-compostable stuff away, he'll put up the bean poles, pick the beans, and take them down, dig potatoes, spread manure, water and is my left hand so not really complaining, but I'd just love him to be in at the start. :)
Ninny
I'll have him if you don't want him, ninny! ;)
Think I'll keep him Caroline, just need to work harder on my training skills ;) ;D
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My hardest task is to avoid drooling too much over seed catalogues.........aka vegetable porn! ;D
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Simply veg cat. came recently... drool.... :)
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keepig on top of the weeds (bind weed and couch grass :( ) and not spending too much money on seeds and other garden "essentials"...
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Have I missed that one Saddad.
Simply veg cat. came recently... drool.... :)
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It's "Plants of Distinction" Janet
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Thanks.
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Getting enough manure\organic material to the plot.
Same here, though I'm not much clay, I'm very dry crumble. On top of that I'm in no way built for hod carrying. Tore a muscle last autumn lugging bagged manure and couldn't move my arm for 3 weeks.
Never seems to be enough to make it moist.
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Simply veg cat. came recently... drool.... :)
Oh dear saddad just had to download it after your comment. Certainly a feast for the eyes.......
http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/img/Veg%20Catalogue%202010.pdf
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And when you have finished drooling over them ... try this one too ;)
http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/chilternseeds/index/
... ask for a paper copy and just check out their veggie illustrations ... they are to die for :D
... the veg taste great too !!! ;D ;D ;D
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hmmm
Getting spacing right possibly.
Also not having a polytunnel - its hard accepting that at the moment!
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Digging. Some of my 'soil' is still rock solid and some areas are only a few inches deep before it is like concrete.
Ditto!
Closely followed by fighting the weeds on the non cultivated bits!
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Cleaning stupidly knobbly pink fir apple potatoes. After one saucepan full I am ready to put other several kilos on Freecycle. Never again!
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Cleaning stupidly knobbly pink fir apple potatoes. After one saucepan full I am ready to put other several kilos on Freecycle. Never again!
Try jet spraying them in a bucket.
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Planning and recording. Always mean to, never do. Plan in my head, then something grabs my attention - oooh yes, must try this, surely can squeeze a bit of that in there - and the plan has gone. Might help if I stopped reading this forum ::) ;D
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Anything to do with potatoes, moving compost and moving manure ...these are the moments i wish i was a man!
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Digging the spuds up properly so as not to leave any volunteer's, anyone managed that yet. ;D ;D ;D
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planting potatoes
next hardest
getting up in a morning
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The OH plants the potatoes and brings me breakfast in bed so right now can't think of a hardest task horticulturally but wait for the weekend when I try to keep two grandchildren happy 1 male 13, 1 female 8 =disaster protective clothing compulsorily
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Putting the canes away. I always managed to hurt my hands. Hate doing it.
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Talking my old man into putting up my greenhouse............. :D
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new greenhouse!!......thats posh betula ;D ;D
has the credit crunch not hit yet ?
;D ;D ;D ;D
jtw
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Removing carpet from the plot that has brambles and weeds growing through it with 3" soil on top >:(
Neil
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1. Definitely the same as Nilly (when I got my plot)
2. lugging everything up to the plot (manure, wood etc)
3. then managing the dreaded couch grass
4. Managing my seed addiction
5. persuading OH to help me build stuff - compost bin, cold frames and shed
6. Turning over new areas for the 1st time - boy that clay is heavy and sticky!
I think I'll stop there ::) ;D
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Digging the spuds up properly so as not to leave any volunteer's, anyone managed that yet. ;D ;D ;D
Or not putting ya fork in the one the slugs have Left alone. ;D
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new greenhouse!!......thats posh betula ;D ;D
has the credit crunch not hit yet ?
;D ;D ;D ;D
jtw
This is my point.The greenhouse is still in the box.......from about two years ago.
He sez............must think about that tomorrow
She sez..............any chance of thinking about it today ::) ::) ::)
Better get a man in ;D
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This is my point.The greenhouse is still in the box.......from about two years ago.
He sez............must think about that tomorrow
She sez..............any chance of thinking about it today ::) ::) ::)
Better get a man in ;D
Now who was it who had that nice fit young Polish man handy....... ;D
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Fighting off the women on site. :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :-*
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I have seen you in real live, so dream on. If I were 20 years younger and he hasn't got a wife and a child, I think I would go with Manuel and his big pumpkins. ;D ;D ;D
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I am sure Kev's Pumpkins are just as good............... 8)
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Someone did have their grubby hands on my pumpkins this year. :P ;D ;D ;D
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Oooh er, matron....... ;D
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wishing it would stop raining on my days off. ::) ::) So much to do, so few dry days :'( :'(
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wishing it would stop raining on my days off. ::) ::) So much to do, so few dry days :'( :'(
Same here, I am in the middle of two weeks holiday, and I have been able to do less because of the rain than in the preceding two weeks whilst still at work! ::)
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Clenching - When I'm desperate for a number 2 down the lottie. :o